In the beginning, he used hypnosis. But he quickly abandoned it in favor of free association and dream analysis.
Freud trained in France, Paris to be precise, under neurologist Jean-Martin Charcot, who often did use hypnosis to treat neurological disorders.
Sigmund Freud initially used hypnosis as a therapeutic tool to explore his patients' unconscious thoughts and emotions. However, he later developed psychoanalysis as a method to gain insight into the unconscious mind, which replaced hypnosis in his practice. Freud believed that through free association and interpretation of dreams, patients could uncover repressed memories and underlying issues causing psychological distress.
Sigmund Freud initially used hypnosis as a therapeutic technique but later abandoned it in favor of free association and dream analysis as part of his psychoanalytic approach to therapy.
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Sigmund Freud began his professional career as a neurologist. He worked on research involving the nervous system and the treatment of psychological disorders through practices like hypnosis.
Depends upon your definition of Hypnosis, Mesmer came up with Animal Magnetism (origin of the word mesmerize) but cant really be called hypnosis. Erikson is deemed the father of modern hypnosis methods and thinking. There are many individuals in between the two who have left there mark and helped make hypnosis what it is today
James Braid, Hippolyte Bernheim, Sigmund Freud, Pierre Janet, Ernest Rossi
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Hypnosis proved problematic for Freud in his practice of psychotherapy, which is why he abandoned it in favour of other techniques he'd developed for unlocking and analysing the "unconscious" thoughts and impulses of his patients. Freud had trained as a medical doctor, and then specialised and researched in neurology. He studied hypnosis, and its clinical potential, under Charcot et al in Paris, and was interested in using it to access the "unconscious mind" of troubled patients. When he did so, however, he encountered many difficulties with his typical Viennese patients, mainly upper-middle class women who came from very socially and sexually repressive background. When in the state of heightened suggestibility typical of hypnosis, many of them displayed extreme "transference" typically involving erotic fantasies centred on Freud himself! This was very uncomfortable for him, professionally dangerous, and not therapeutically useful to his patients, threatening to do far more harm than good. Consequently, Freud abandoned hypnosis, and developed what became known as "free association", and similar techniques, which generally had the effect of inducing in patients a dissociated trance state, but without the same problems which all too often had occurred during hypnosis inductions - typically a very focused and "intimate" form of interpersonal communication.